Help can anyone recognize this object

[martinfabio]

i was recommended to try this forum I found this the other day the picture doesnt give it justice its about 2inches long and its got a special pattern inside which has been gold gilted its is old roman or saxon the hole looks like it been drill at a later date i found it in england.
thanks
the date on the photo wrong havnt set the camera right yet

 

[NJgeoman]

looks more like a used trojan than an old roman or saxon

 

[dirtdigginlady]

n/t

 

[GoGoGopher]

A flashlight switch

 

[Musketeer]

I have an idea, in fact I found one illustrated almost identical to this in an article on Wikipedia. I was searching for the item, as this appears to be something similar. No record of this device being used prior to the 15th century.

See I don't know whether or not I can post the name of this item, as I'm still kinda new here and would hate to get kicked off so soon!!!!!!

NJgeoman is closer than he thinks!!!!!

Musketeer,

 

[martinfabio]

Hello thanks for your post i would like to know the webpage you saw it on im still confused i havnt found any pictures close to it
thanks alot

 

[ronaldj2]

Maybe a small escutheon for a door or a drawer, where the knob would go through.

 

[Musketeer]

martinfabio, sorry I have been busy I tried to set up a e-mail account on AT&T just for things like this, but AT&T is impossible. Anyway, I don't see how anybody can object, at least I hope not.

Because of the time frame and location, I think could be a lockplate for a chastity belt. The post from the bottom strap would protrude through the hole and a lock would be attached.

Do a google search and click on the Wikipedia link.. Look for illustrations of older ones, one illustrated on Wikipedia appears to have about the same type of post and lockplate, although it has a round lock. On older ones a hole would have been drilled through the post to attach a lock.

Musketeer

 

[martinfabio]

Thanks for all your help with this object but today i got an email from the portable antiques scheme confirming its an anglo saxon 6th century belt mount in the style I what ever that means and its very unusal with a hole in the middle its now got to be set off so they can record it.

happy hunting

 

[Musketeer]

I think having a national organization to record and document important archaelogical artifacts is a great idea... I understand that you are not able to keep some things, especially things that belong in a museum. But do get paid something according to their value, right?

I think of the guy in Scotland who found the gold necklaces made with Celtic and Mediterranean styles mixed, apparantly caused a change in the thinking about the isolation of Scotland during those times. I forgot what the estimated date was, but I think Roman or thereabouts.

Here in Texas they just might have been melted for the gold. I know a guy who lives on the coast. After a hurricane he noticed a guy picking up something on the beach.. He remarked to the guy that he must be finding some nice shells. The guy showed him that he had picked up some ancient gold coins.. My friend recognized some as Spanish... Wonder what happened to them? I'll wager t hat they never made it to a museum or were available for historical evaluation.

I convinced a man not to dig into an Indian campsite with a small bulldozer. It has a mound of chipped flints about 12 feet across, with a smaller mound nearby, all about a foot high. It must have been in use for hundreds of years. But he wanted to get into it quickly, "to see what he could find". The only way it could be studied would be to try to interest some university. Which would be next to impossible as there are literally thousands of these. I'm have permission to check it with my detector, Indians in this part of Texas had metal since the late 1600s. I have seen some really nice metal arrowheads recovered from a cave in West Texas. But of course no one tried to determine the age of them.

Let us know what a Style I belt mount is, please.

Musketeer

 

[edjcox]

For future photo's. Try to include a reference object or even a ruler edge to allow folks to have a reference to the size of the object whose identity is being sought.

For me this appeared a modern item with the tapered symmetrical holes and I felt it a pushbutton switch cover from a flashlight. Again a size reference and photo of the other side would have helped..
glad it is something old for you. As we always say, good find..

 

[martinfabio]

next time i will put it next to a ruler its 42mm x14mm im still new to this website so im still learning bear with me

 

[ronaldj2]

Glad to read that you got an ID on the item you found, thats pretty cool.